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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

August 15, 2008Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2008, 5:31 PM CDT for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 2008, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Burleson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 315 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2008-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3033 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2008-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3033 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.